35. PUFFINUS YELKOUANUS (Acerbi). 



(LEVANTINE SHEARWATER.) 



(Plate 29.) 



Procellaria yelkouan, Acerbi, Bibl. Ital., XL VII., p. 297 (1827). 



Puffinus yelkouan, Bp., Consp. Av., II., p. 205 (1856) ; Arrigoni degli Oddi, Atl. Orn., 



p. 526 (1902). 

 Puffinus baroli (nee Bonelli), Bp., Comptes Rend., XLIL, p. 769 (1856) ; Salvad., Faun. 



d'ltalia Ucc., p. 299 ; id., Ibis, 1899, p. 641. 

 Puffinus anglorum (nee Kubl), Costa, Faun. Regn. Nap. Ucc., p. 72 (1857), et auct. 



aliq. recent. 

 Puffinus yelcuanus, Coues, Pr. Acad. Philad., 1864, pp. 137, 144. 

 Puffinus yelkouanus, Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXV., p. 379 (1896). 



Cauda breviore, rotundata : subtus albus, interdum fuscescenti-brunneo lavatus : 

 axillaribus albis, fuscescenti-brunneo terminatis vel marmoratis, rarius omnino 

 brunneis : subcaudalibus et hypochondriis fuscescenti-brunneis. 



This species occurs throughout the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to the shores of 

 Palestine and Egypt, extending to the Sea of Marmora. I have examined a large series 

 in the British Museum and in the Rothschild Collection, from the following localities : 

 Morocco (Savile Reid) ; Oran, Algeria (G. E. Shelley) ; Malaga (Howard Saunders) ; 

 Nice (E. C. Taylor) ; Malta (C. A. Wright) ; Isola Toro, Sardinia (Rothschild Mus.) ; 

 Corsica (John Whitehead) ; Croatia (S. Brusina) ; Cyclades (Rothschild Mus.) ; 

 Bosphorus (T. Robson ; W. Pearce) ; Smyrna Bay, Vourla Bay, Asia Minor (C. G. 

 Danford) ; foot of Mt. Carmel, Palestine (H. B. Tristram) ; Damietta, Egypt 

 (Filipponi; Mus., G. E. Shelley). 



The above records embrace almost the entire range of P. yelkouanus. According 

 to Count Arrigoni degli Oddi {I.e.) it is a common species in the Italian Mediterranean, 

 and nests there ; it is, however, rare in the Adriatic, especially in the Gulf of Venice, 

 though common on the coast of Croatia. The specimens obtained in the Gulf of 

 Lyons, though generally referred to P. anglorum, have all proved to be P. yelkouanus, 

 and the same may be said of those procured off the coasts of the Riviera. Others 



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